Palestinian People's Party

The Palestinian People's Party (PPP) is a Marxist political party in Palestine which was founded in February 1982 by Bashir Barghouti. It was founded as the refoundation of the Palestinian Communist Party, which had been founded in 1919 but declined over the years. The PCP joined the PLO in 1987, and it helped the PLO launched the FIrst Intifada, playing an important role in mobilizing grassroots support; it was the sole PLO organization not based on fedayeen organizations. In 1991, after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the PCP changed its name to the "Palestinian People's Party", abandoning communism in favor of more moderate Marxism in order to unite the warring classes and dissociate itself from state atheism. It went on to become a minor party in the Legislative Council.